Buea roadside traders fear insecurity at new market site
By Nchendzengang Tatah
As Municipal Police have begun destroying roadside sales benches July 25, 2024 at the Buea Great Soppo Market, traders have blamed insecurity at the relocation site for hesitance.
This follows an announcement on July 23, warning roadside traders to relocate immediately as a fallout of a crisis meeting of some market heads, vendors and municipal authorities.
The relocation site being the newly inaugurated first phase of the Buea Central Market is planted in Bitwingi. A community which has counted several attacks by separatist fighters in recent years.
Prominent being one on Monday, January 29 resulting in one death, many casualties and razed vehicles. The unstable situation traders say has affected the movement of people towards that end of the town and so will costumers.
The Mayor of Buea, David Mafani Namange blamed the traders for causing urban disorder for long. He formerly had called on the local population to collaborate with Forces of Law and Order inorder to restore insecure communities.
